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Not long after walking into the newest exhibit at The Mariners' Museum, your eyes and feet will tell you that "Fragile Waters" is no ordinary collection of black-and-white pictures. Even from far across the completely revamped space that was once the Chesapeake Bay gallery, a series of unusually large landscape views by famed photographer Ansel Adams grabs your attention with three riveting river channels that swoop and curve across the earth as if intent on carving out some epic pattern. Then they hand you off to his still more majestic shot of an immense sky, a thin horizon line of far-off mountains and what seems like an infinite series of clouds reflected in the...

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Not long after walking into the newest exhibit at The Mariners' Museum, your eyes and feet will tell you that "Fragile Waters" is no ordinary collection of black-and-white pictures.
Even from far across the completely revamped space that was...

For the first time in a century, endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep are back on their ancestral range and headed toward recovery, wildlife officials said Monday.
During an ongoing relocation effort, dozens of bighorns have been captured with nets...

PINEHURST, Calif. A massive die-off of pine trees in the southern Sierra Nevada caused by beetles attacking drought-stressed trees is turning forests brown and creating a fire tinderbox. From El Portal in Mariposa County to Kernville in Kern...

After nearly 100 years, the National Park Service holds some of the country's most beautiful and historic places, though it also suffers from an $11 billion backlog of unfunded maintenance and a visitor base that's aging and mostly white. With its...

WASHINGTON — After nearly 100 years, the National Park Service holds some of the most beautiful and historic places in the country, though there's also an $11 billion backlog of unfunded maintenance and a visitor base that's aging and mostly white.
...

He had been pining for the sky since youth.
Thomas Cole's model aircraft-bedecked room was the earliest testament to his eventual 31-year career with the navy, his tact as a pilot first developed as a teenager.
Before he earned his drivers license he...

WASHINGTON Yosemite National Park needs a lot of work, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis warned lawmakers Tuesday. What's needed is not glamorous, and not unique to one park. The deferred maintenance backlog at all national parks...

Hands torn and bleeding, the second of two men attempting a grueling climb up a half-mile of sheer granite in California's Yosemite National Park cleared one of the ascent's most difficult stretches after days of failed attempts and waiting.
Growing...

National parks will waive entrance fees Saturday through Monday in honor of Presidents Day weekend. It's the longest fee-free period of the year for national parks.
The free admission applies to more than 400 parks nationwide, including Yosemite,...

Next time you go to Yosemite National Park, look for a new and rarely seen visitor: the Sierra Nevada red fox.
Park officials announced Wednesday that cameras set up in the far northern part of the park twice confirmed a sighting of the fox that hasn't...

The elusive Sierra Nevada red fox has been spotted at Yosemite National Park for the first time in nearly 100 years.
“They are extremely cute little animals,” said Yosemite spokeswoman Kari Cobb. “When you see them, they are pretty majestic.”
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Day after day, the two Americans who completed what had been considered the world's most difficult rock climb bloodied their fingertips, endured bruising falls and balanced their bodies on handholds as small as coins.But while living for more than two...

Kevin Jorgeson, one of two men to successfully free climb Yosemite's Dawn Wall, was clinging to a particularly treacherous stretch of granite when the pain and doubts began to set in.
For days, the professional climber had struggled to move past Pitch...

A pair of Americans completed what had long been considered the world's most difficult rock climb Wednesday, using only their hands and feet to scale a 3,000-foot vertical wall on El Capitan, the forbidding granite pedestal in Yosemite National Park...

Somewhere up on that impossibly vertical rock face, two men were inching toward accomplishing what had never been done before.
Tommy Caldwell, 36, and Kevin Jorgeson, 30, could become the first to "free climb" the Dawn Wall. They are propelling...

Reports of artistic vandalism in 10 national parks in the West have prompted an investigation from the National Park Service, which said it is looking into incidents in five states, including California.
The agency said in an announcement Wednesday...

New York state is best known for the mega-metropolis that bears the same name, but it's also home to a mega-park, one of America's greatest natural wonders: Adirondack Park. As state tourism officials like to point out, the 6 million-acre wilderness...

It's improving. It's better. Americans can be proud of it again. What, you thought we were talking about Congress? We're talking about the National Mall this city's national park that contains everything from the Washington Monument to the national...

The list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (whc.unesco.org) grew to 1,007 in 161 countries in June when 26 sites were added. For travelers, this is a veritable buffet of possibilities of great destinations.
Among the cultural or natural treasures added this...

When telling people that I would be camping in Brooklyn — yes, that Brooklyn, the borough of New York — a swift, two-pronged response usually followed.
"You can do that?"
Wait a moment and then …
"Why would you want to do that?"
To...